You may have noticed that more and more people are testing positive for COVID-19 after using a rapid test to swab their throats. The trend took off on Twitter this past week, and unlike most of the ...

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There is a growing debate on whether people testing for omicron should swab their throats. Most people in the U.S. have been doing COVID-19 rapid tests with nasal swabs. That is what the Food and Drug ...

Anyone who has had a COVID-19 PCR test done knows the drill — a swab up the nose and then the tester pops the swab into a plastic bag and off it goes. That’s when the hard work begins of determining ...

As COVID-19 quickly spread worldwide this spring, shortages of supplies, including the nasopharyngeal (nasal) swabs used to collect viral samples, limited diagnostic testing. Now, a multisite clinical ...

Some testers gently swab the front of your nostril and send you on your way. Others dig deep, bringing the pain. What’s the gold standard? By Livia Albeck-Ripka and John Yoon One Canadian said it felt ...